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01. Hyperborea

Then came winter's bitterness
Numbness swept down from the east
The lost, cold and hungry gently collapse
Into the endless fields of soft luminous white

She sulks from the silver towers, she could save a life
He says he hates us and he's afraid to try and I know why
Trapped under winter's paw I'm the animal
Frost invades and steals my breathing
Distant dimples glut with glitter and comfortable
Outside the wolves are waiting

Don't trust man
Don't trust girl
Don't trust animals
Trust in steel
Don't stop moving
Don't stop breathing

She sulks from the silver towers, she could save a life
He says he hates us and he's afraid to try and I know why

When nature calls
Eat the kill
When nature calls
Trust in steel

Don't stop moving
Don't stop breathing

02. Murder

The blood of this family mingles
With the clay in this stinking riverbed
I tie the boy down and tear his mother's gown
It's ok, she's already dead

I'll sell the boy and the horses to the snake you cannot see
I cut open the white man and take from his woman too
If it were up to me all the white faces would bleed
And bleed and bleed and bleed, it's truth

Murder, it's murder

Empty plains echo with empty screams
There's a wagon on the highland
Father and his girl, both are heading south
I tie the boy and the horses
Then I use the skills of the wolf
I don't use a bullet, I get close enough that I can use my knife

I cut open the white man and take from his woman too
If it were up to me all the white faces would bleed
Red it's a better colour, it's true

Let the blood out, let it flow
Cut the blood out, let it flow
Kill the blood out, let it flow

Let it flow, like a river
Let it flow, like a river to the sea

03. The Startling Secret Of Super Sapphire

In down between the unseen
Secret room of wonder and despair
Rusting and in disrepair
Un-here and un-there

Super Sapphire is smiling
He's trapped in a room with three dying moons
Pulsing bicep boom cracks wheels of worlds
His not-skin cold black
A deep blue space like waiting
Violet lights collide then shimmer in his hair and eyes
Not wounds never bleed the lights of whispered stars
He's a shattering perfection
Completely past detection
His head is a comet's tail
And his face is made of hearts

Super Sapphire is smiling
...Still Super Sapphire is smiling

I am locked in his black hole gaze...
I eat moons
But he eats days!

Crashing, slamming, booming, dooming
Eating worlds and consuming me
Quonom eyes now back alive
Teasing, learning blind
Decamping his secret prison room
He is loose!
I was a fool
Oh no!

04. The Beach

(Instrumental)

05. Face Of Bear

Winter's coming
Days die short at the end of autumn's reign
Hunger becomes ravenous
Hibernation never waits
Soon the silent slumber
For now October's feast
Fearless and graceful
Crashing through dead leaves

Don't feed the bears or the bears will feed on you

All the forest fauna
Frozen feeling fear
Flinching at the moment
Face to face with face of bear
All the forest creatures
Vanish from sight
Their betters come wither hungers
That cannot be denied

Soon the silent dreaming is coming
Hunger's drumming
Nights grow long
Neither plant or beast have walls or doors
To protect them from the greatest of the omnivores
Towering over my head
Terrible beauty
Fuck I'm dead

The hunger!

Fall is falling, stars are conquering
Dead branches soaked with rain
Bear gut glut on critters
Heavy eyes feeling weight
Twilight sighs in animal eyes
A new cycle will begin
This winter when trees are white
The fauna is free from him

Don't feed the bears or the bears will feed on you

I'll die with the honor I choose
I will fight face of bear and lose

Face to face with face of bear

06. Crickets

Crickets clicking in silence
Ticking making me feel empty
Down to my very core
Hiding in the silence
Broadcasting a tiny little violence
A clicking, ticking in the night that wasn't there before

07. New York City

Waking up in New York City
Dreaming about how it all began
Bright lights, big city
New Amsterdan and the Indians
You called me in tears
And it looks like rain

I walk south
To our playground
Civilization's honeycomb
Taxi! Taxi! Taxi!
Warm and pungent seats take me across the bridge
I can't be late

I'm heavy with you through cold morning avenues
Rushing with the rabble under gluttonous swelling skies

I'll come to you
Over clandestine sidewalks
I'll come to you
Crashing through dead leaves
I'll come to you
Counting cracks in the sidewalks
I'll come to you
Crashing

And the crosswalks says stop
But yet there you are
Just a flicker of a picture
Between the static of cars
And it's a relief
That these walls are so high
Like arms that hold us together
Waiting for a green light

Go, go, go
Stop!

We embrace in the heart of our city
On wet broken sidewalks, we're free

08. Sex Raptor

Your legs are sweet and look like ivory
I can smell them and taste them at the same time
My mouth always waters with anticipation
We're together and I'm alive
Feel my teeth, they're long and hard
The tips sharp enough to pierce your hide
Now it's time to taste your flesh
You gasp and whimper a silent cry
Goodbye

I prowl the room
I prowl the room for something sweeter to consume

It's not enough
No, it's not enough

My sweat starts to cover you
And your body starts to shake
No matter how much that you give
I just want more to take

It's natural

I prowl the room
I prowl the room for something fresh to consume
I prowl the room
I prowl the room for something sweeter something sweeter something sweeter

It's not enough
No, it's not enough

My mouth has had it's fill of you
I can taste you on my breath
I give you one last kiss
And it's the kiss of death

It's not enough
No, it's not enough

09. The Red Tornado

The red tornado

Circuitry and sympathy are two different things
But they come together in a robot who dreams
Round and round and round he goes
Toaster for a body, tornado for a soul

He's lightning in a bottle
Tornado in a cage
He sees no prison in the lines of his face
Tornado! Ah!

His emotions spin at destructive speeds
That he's learning to control
It's a cumulonimbus inside the machine
He's half robot and half tornado

So sad the cyborg cyclone seems drifting through the sky
A willful wisp of machinery not born but devised
Still the cyborg cyclone cries, coolant drips from his eyes
Plastic hands on his heart that slowly tear him apart

Tornado, tornado, tornado, go!

Wild winds whip when he wishes that he were real
He rarely rusts but he's never had a real meal
By saving the world he's saving himself
A machine that is selfish just like everyone else

Tornado, tornado, tornado, go!

10. Crow Town

(Instrumental)

11. Treasure Train

Hang on, hang on, hang on

I took steps in this mission
To take this tumultuous ride
It's all right
I'm the physician
This medicine will keep me alive
I wouldn't feel, I wouldn't look
and i would rarely care
But there's a small window at the end of this train
I hear something out there
I didn't know and I wouldn't try
I didn't have the need
The sound from the windows is becoming much clearer
That window's a mirror

I see myself
I'm not alone on this train of jewels and gold
Passengers and passerby
Strange sparkles in their eyes
Then black stars start boiling from my mouth
I want to die
On my knees i clutch my face
Then glow and come alive

There's lightning in my hair
Thunder in my ears
I go so far my head explodes
I'm almost half way there

Lightning in the sky
Thunder of the train
Diving into a bottomless rift
Falling like rain

Lightning in the sky
Thunder in my room
There's no flavor to memories
And memories are moment's doom

Hang on, hang on, hang on

Onto the treasure train
Valleys of sorrow and peaks of joy
Across an empty plain
The treasure

On the treasure train
We will never be the same
On the treasure train
I go so far my head explodes

12. His Purple Majesty

Purple or close to purple
Regardless it was soft and mushy

She said she was so nervous
When these situations arose
She said she touched its skin
And it felt like uncooked chicken
But she wanted, but she needed
Perfect sex in purple robes

He said 'Hold my hand while I touch you'
He said 'It will feel better that way'
She said 'I'll do anything you say'
'This time it was different' She lost control

He licks his lips and locks his eyes on what he likes the best
And comes to her with swollen love
And puts it on her chest
His purple majesty

She lets him inside
Even though it feels wrong
It was all the symptoms of love
But bleeding a black horror

"Nothing is worth it!"
"Nothing is worth anything anymore!"
Even though the stains are gone

A choking gasp signaled a stinking eruption
From her mouth and her throat, down her chin
His purple majesty

He licks his lips and locks his eyes
On what he likes the best
And comes to her with swollen love
And shoves it up her ass
His purple majesty

13. Kangarooster Meadows

On a warm summer day you'll find him there,
Relaxing in the shadows,
Tapping his toe,
Under a tree,
Down in Kangarooster Meadows.

K-A-N-garooster
M-E-A-dows

On a warm summer day you'll find him there,
Relaxing in the shadows,
Tapping his toe,
Under a tree,
Down in Kangarooster Meadows.

14. Rotting Horse

(Instrumental)

15. I Think We Are Both Suffering From The Same Crushing Metaphysical Crisis

Dilation of chronal aperture in 3, 2, 1

Activate
Initiate instruments set to yesterday

At the speed of light across empty plains of time
On a ship of jewels and gold
All of time unfolds

A seven click blip
For a fifteen eon trip
Crafting deja vu
Event horizon boom
Days rescind and lapse
Birth after death
Tomorrow is the past
Event horizon boom
Cities shrink and fade into the ice age
Dinosaurs now new
Event horizon boom

Time is broken!

Time after time

All these machines that dream
Make me want to scream
There's no bears or wild things
The future's not what it seems
Causality denied
All of time is now mine
The crisis we both share
Is you are me when i was there

Time after time
It's almost time
Time to say goodbye
At the end of time

16. Lif

(Instrumental)